Houses that may as well be Haunted in my Halifax, NS Neighborhood

I am, at this very second, en route away from Halifax, NS, and let me tell you: I will really miss the old-timey houses in the older parts of the city. In my last post, I showed you the most adorable houses of my neighborhood—the dollhouses, if you will. In this post, I want you to check out some others. Specifically, the haunted ones.

As I said in my last post,

Halifax is a cool city, for one thing because it’s one of the oldest large cities in Canada (it was settled by the British in 1749 as a counter naval base to the French at Fort Louisbourg in Cape Breton^source), which means there are a number of stately residences in the areas that surround downtown. Some of these stately residences have been well-kept, and others have suffered from the difficult Haligonian weather (“If you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes!”). These turn-of-the-century houses appear to me either as dollhouses or haunted houses. And that is the subject of this post (and the last).

I don’t entirely believe in ghosts, but I do believe in the power of the imagination. Check out these houses, which could easily be haunted:

A turret!

It looks pretty, you say? Think again. It's a weird part-castle. *shudders*

This one has tree cover, a stone wall, a curved horse-carriage-y driveway, and…

…a widow's peak!

Solitude.

And with that, I bid you adieu, Halifax.

It has been a slice. Truly.

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